In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee's brain and drew what ...

A strange bit of news coming from Brazil has people making jokes about "injecting crushed butterfly" to take the edge off ...

In a clip seen over 5 million times, and which has racked up 1.3 million likes in just over a day, Holland uses a camera to record a cicada she has found in her home. As she kicks a foot out at it, it ...

It’s hoped that through competitions like Bug of the Year, greater awareness will be brought to velvet worms and other bugs ...

The blowfly larvae bodies have evolved to closely resemble those of the termites, the researchers report February 10 in Current Biology. Inside the nest, termites recognize each other through touch, ...

Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor ...

Davi Nunes Moreira, 14, died in hospital in Planalto, Brazil after telling staff he had injected a solution made of crushed ...

On a subzero morning, I clip into skis and head out across my meadow, gliding between desiccated husks of sundial lupine ...

How can we save our bees and other pollinators as their numbers continue to fall? The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has written to DEFRA to ensure there is a proper response to ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection An invasive bug species found at a Michigan airport marks just the third time the species has been intercepted in the United States, officials say. U.S. Customs ...